Correct me if I'm wrong, but all of those years he coached at YSU and OSU he was also paying into the PERS system, and he has to be close to thirty years, which would give him something like 75-80% of the average of his five highest salaries.

Right now he's working for U of Akron; tick tock, tick tock. He was making like $4mil a year at OSU and would get most of that annually for the rest of his life if he simply worked in Ohio. So why leave?

Danny Hope, a good man who tried his best, is no longer the head coach at Purdue. Which leads to the obvious question: Who’s next?

Already, there are all kind of Internet rumors about Jim Tressel, and with Bill Polian on AD Morgan Burke’s advisory committee — along with Colts GM Ryan Grigson and Texans GM Rick Smith — Tressel’s name is going to gain more traction.

He's got a five-year “show cause” penalty against him, which means some of the sanctions levied against him at Ohio State would follow him to Purdue.

Purdue's record was 6-6 (3-5 in the conference). They won their final three games. But Purdue had some tough losses.

The Boilermakers lost at Notre Dame 20-17 when the Irish kicked the winning field goal in the final seconds of the game.

Purdue lost at Ohio State in overtime. The Buckeyes scored a touchdown and a two-point conversion in the final seconds of regulation to force overtime.